date:Oct 08, 2012
n through mid-August, the USDA said. And in France,crop is seen falling 12% to five million tons, despite stableacreage, due to poor weather conditions throughout the growingseason, especially a very wet early summer which boosted mildewdisease.
Output in the EU has been hurt not just by the knock-on effect oflower prices last year, which prompted many growers to plantalternative crops for this season, but also by, in manycountries, poor weather, which in the UK included the wettestsummer in a